Mathijs van Leeuwen

About

Mathijs van Leeuwen is a rural development sociologist, who specialises in conflict and peacebuilding in developing countries. After his graduation at Wageningen University in 1999, he worked as a researcher at Clingendael, and with various NGOs in Kenya, Sudan, Guatemala and Bolivia. His PhD research at Wageningen Disaster Studies (2004-2008) concerned discourses and practices of civil society peacebuilding and their international support, with fieldwork in a.o. Burundi and Guatemala. Since 2009, Mathijs works at the Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM). His current research work focuses on land disputes and post-conflict land reform; climate change, natural resources and conflict; civil society and local peacebuilding; local state- and non-state governance and state formation; and the discourses and practices of intervening organizations regarding conflict and peace. Many of his research projects are interactive in nature, and challenge policy makers and practitioners from development organizations to critically reflect on their own work and on the implications of research findings for policy and intervention.

Work

Radboud University
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Professor Peace & Conflict Studies

Netherlands

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Radboud University
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Associate Professor

Netherlands

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Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
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Assistant Professor

Netherlands

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Universiteit Leiden
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researcher in and coordinator of 'Grounding Land Governance'

Netherlands

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Education

Wageningen University and Research Centre
Netherlands

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PhD

Wageningen Universiteit
Netherlands

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Publications

Intricate links: Displacement, ethno-political conflict, and claim-making to land in Burundi

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Geoforum

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The Legitimation Effects of Peacebuilding and Development Interventions—Strengthening Land Registration in Northern Uganda

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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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From resolving land disputes to agrarian justice – dealing with the structural crisis of plantation agriculture in eastern DR Congo

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The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Intricate links: Displacement, ethno-political conflict, and claim-making to land in Burundi

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Geoforum

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The ‘local turn’ and notions of conflict and peacebuilding–Reflections on local peace committees in Burundi and eastern DR Congo

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Peacebuilding

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Defusing Land Disputes? The Politics of Land Certification and Dispute Resolution in Burundi

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Development and Change

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Claim-making as social practice – Land, politics and conflict in Africa

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Geoforum

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War-induced displacement: Hard choices in land governance

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Land

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Transforming land governance, and strengthening the state in South Sudan

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African Affairs

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Burundi

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The Elgar Companion to Post-Conflict Transition

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Transforming land governance and strengthening the state in South Sudan

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African Affairs

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Localizing Land Governance, Strengthening the State; Decentralization and land tenure security in Uganda

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Journal of Agrarian Change

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The multifaceted relationship between land and violent conflict: The case of Apaa evictions in Amuru district, northern Uganda

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Journal of Modern African Studies

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The multifaceted relationship between land and violent conflict: the case of Apaa evictions in Amuru district, northern Uganda

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The Journal of Modern African Studies

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Localizing Land Governance, Strengthening the State: Decentralization and Land Tenure Security in Uganda

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Journal of Agrarian Change

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Theorizing the Land--Violent Conflict Nexus

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World Development

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The Politics of Displacement-related Land Conflict in Yei River County, South Sudan

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The Journal of Modern African Studies

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The politics of displacement-related land conflict in Yei River County, South Sudan

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Journal of Modern African Studies

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Theorizing the Land-Violent Conflict Nexus

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World Development

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Where do I report my land dispute? The impact of institutional proliferation on land governance in post-conflict Northern Uganda

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Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law

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Where do I report my land dispute? The impact of institutional proliferation on land governance in post-conflict Northern Uganda

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Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law

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Reconciling reintegration: the complexity of economic and social reintegration of ex-combatants in Burundi

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Disasters

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Reconciling reintegration: The complexity of economic and social reintegration of ex-combatants in Burundi

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Disasters

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La gouvernance foncière comme un moyen de renforcement de l’État au niveau local dans l’Est de la RDC

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Land governance as an avenue for local state building in eastern DRC

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Renegotiating customary tenure reform - Land governance reform and tenure security in Uganda

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Land Use Policy

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Renegotiating customary tenure reform--Land governance reform and tenure security in Uganda

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Land Use Policy

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The Continuities in Contested Land Acquisitions in Uganda

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Losing Your Land: Dispossession in the Great Lakes

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Civil Society in Fragile Contexts

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The Handbook of Global Security Policy

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Civil Society in Peacebuilding: Global Discourse, Local Reality

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International Peacekeeping

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Civil Society in Peacebuilding: Global Discourse, Local Reality

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International Peacekeeping

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The politics of peacebuilding through strengthening civil society

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Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises: Everyday Politics of Crisis Response

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The politics of peacebuilding through strengthening civil society

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Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises: Everyday Politics of Crisis Response

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Thinking beyond the liberal peace: From utopia to heterotopias

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Acta politica

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Complexities and Challenges for Civil Society Building in Post-Conflict Settings

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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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Tenure insecurity & land disputes affecting members of Mbarara District Farmers Association

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Thinking beyond the liberal peace: From utopia to heterotopias

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Acta Politica

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Connecting community security and DDR: Experiences from Burundi

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Crisis or continuity?: framing land disputes and local conflict resolution in Burundi

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Land Use Policy

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Evaluation du programme de Oxfam Novib au Burundi, 2005-2009

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L'interconnexion entre la sécurité des communautés et les programmes de DDR: Un étude de terrain au Burundi

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To conform or to confront? CSOs and agrarian conflict in post-conflict Guatemala

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Journal of Latin American Studies

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To conform or to confront? CSOs and agrarian conflict in post-conflict guatemala*

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Journal of Latin American Studies

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Crisis or continuity?. Framing land disputes and local conflict resolution in Burundi

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Land Use Policy

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Partners in peace: Discourses and practices of civil-society peacebuilding

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Partners in Peace: Discourses and Practices of Civil-Society Peacebuilding

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Partners in peace: discourses and practices of civil-society peacebuilding

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Gender & Genocide in Burundi: the search for spaces of peace in the Great Lakes region by Patricia O. Daley Oxford: James Currey, 2008. Pp. 268,\pounds 24.95 (pb).

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The Journal of Modern African Studies

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Imagining the Great Lakes Region: Discourses and practices of civil society regional approaches for peacebuilding in Rwanda, Burundi and DR Congo

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Journal of Modern African Studies

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Imagining the Great Lakes Region: discourses and practices of civil society regional approaches for peacebuilding in Rwanda, Burundi and DR Congo

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The Journal of Modern African Studies

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Partners in peace

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Best practices and lessons learned in the peacebuilding programme of MiParec, Burundi

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La problématique foncière et les solutions alternatives face aux défis de la réintégration et réinsertion des sinistrés au Burundi

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Estrategias y experiencias de Pastoral de la Tierra San Marcos con el Programa de la Conflictividad 2001-2006

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Politicas partidistas y su influencia en la Organización Comunitaria, Caso San Mart́ın Sacatepéquez

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Grounding local peace organisations: a case study of southern Sudan

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The Journal of Modern African Studies

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Land disputes and local conflict resolution mechanisms in Burundi

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CED-CARITAS Burundi

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Global peacebuilders and local conflict: the feminization of peace in Southern Sudan

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The gender question in globalization: Changing perspectives and practices

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Local initiatives for peace in southern Sudan and the support given to those by outsiders

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Rethinking the relation between relief and development: Villagisation in Rwanda

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Refugees and the transformation of societies: Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics

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Cultivating seeds for peace: assessment of the seeds for peace program of the Sudanese Women's Voice for Peace and the partnership between SWVP and Pax Christi The Netherlands

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Dispuesto para partir; manual de planificacion, monitoreo y evaluacion para proyectos communitarios

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Evaluatie HHPSO 1998-2001: evaluatie van het humanitaire hulpprogramma van de Vereniging PSO

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Rwanda's Imidugudu programme and earlier experiences with villagisation and resettlement in East Africa

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The Journal of Modern African Studies

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Power-sharing and democracy: crafting institutions for conflict resolution

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The Netherlands and Afghanistan: Dutch policies and interventions regarding the civil war in Afghanistan

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The Netherlands and Sri Lanka

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Dutch policies and interventions with regard to the conflict in Sri Lanka. Conflict Policy Research Project

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Emergency and development: The case of Imidugudu, Villagization in Rwanda

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Journal of Refugee Studies

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Evaluating Humanitarian Aid: Politics, Perspectives and Practices. Proceedings of a Workshop 25-26 June 1999

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Imidugudu, villagisation in Rwanda: a case of emergency development?

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A comparison of water management activities at secondary level in two contrasting irrigation systems.

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